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Wulf

Wulf

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Please tell me I'm not the only guy out there with an unhealthy habit of accumulating more handle material than I'll probably ever use...

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Walrus. His name was Richard. He was a heavy smoker. Who blew a lot of smurfs.

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I wouldn't mind taking a piece of stag off your hands if you are really not going to use it!! :-) I tend to stock up on wood more myself!
 
Please tell me I'm not the only guy out there with an unhealthy habit of accumulating more handle material than I'll probably ever use...




I have so many blocks of wood I don`t know where to put it all ,what I don`t have is any thing exotic like you have :(
 
Nice collection my friend, I feel for you and in honor of friendship and my humanitarian nature I will allow you to give me this burden you are carrying with you.
I do what I can!

Okay now that I am back to reality, I hope to have a collection like that one day.. Do you order your materials or do you get them locally?
 
i have 6 3" x 5" x 12" blocks of cocobolo, 3 water buffalow horns and some antler. im all wase wanting more :D
 
where do you find such nice pieces of stag anyways? I always have trouble finding good pieces for some reason!
 
It would take me a day or two to put it all in a pile.... so... um.... NO, Derrick... you are NOT the only one!!! ;) :D

You've got some WAY gorgeous stuff in there man!!! :cool:
 
I do it with sharpening stones, too. I just can't let a really nice translucent arkansas slip by me:)

John
 
WOW all i have so far elk antlers and a Deer antler. (I think it was the one antler deer from "Open Season"
 
You're not the only one by a long shot my friend. You DO seem to spend a little more $$ than I do on it though, that stag is AWESOME. Of course at the Timonium knife show in December I put about a $400 dent in my wallet just on handle materials. Of course, $200 of it was on 3 sets of mammoth tooth scales! Maybe one of these days I'll put together a group shot. I just need a couple more tables....

-d
 
I hope someday to use up all my handle materials, then I will have become a very experienced maker for sure. It seems I get about enough handle material to do 10 knifes while I am making one.
 
Same here Bubba.The worst part is, I keep ordering more. I still need to get a good collection of Australian woods.:eek: I finally kicked the habit of ordering exotic skins. HEHEHEHEHE!!
 
Nice nice collection :D

I make less knives per year than the noobiest noob and I have a drawer full of woods , a little oosik and antler , although not all crunchy and pretty like yours.

To pump it up , my boss gave me a fairly large plank of cocobolo , enough for several knives , not too long ago.

The thing is when I see a great deal on Ebay I cant pass it up , especially if you run into a small lot of desert ironwood , all the hype aboot it becoming more rare makes me want to snatch it up whilest I can.
 
I spent my last few times going to the NCCA show just buying handle material, so iv'e got a little pile... but my little pile is still probably less total material than just that in your picture (and nothing nearly as nice either) I've a feeling that i'll certainly start getting more handle material than I can produce knives for in short order though.
 
You're not alone. I have two storage systems. The cubby holes have all of my premium handle materials, such as stabilized woods, dinosaur bone, stag, mammoth bone and mammoth ivory, mother of pearl, abalone, and other weird stuff. The rubbermaid containers on the shelves are filled with some really nice handle sized pieces of exotic woods that I haven't sent in for stabilization yet.

I've got lots of stuff!!
 

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